Excerpt from Study Arithmetics: Book 6When the boys and girls in Miss Young's class first began their study of air travel, they were surprised to read this statement: Our world is growing smaller. They wondered how it could grow smaller.But before long they began to see what this state ment really meant. They learned that airplanes are now making it possible to travel great distances easily and'g safely in short periods of time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.